Underneath were ten titles. Sora knew them all. They were the legends: Berserk , One Piece , Fullmetal Alchemist , Naruto , Attack on Titan , Monster , Vagabond , A Silent Voice , Jujutsu Kaisen , and Vinland Saga .
He’d found it wedged between a rejected isekai about a vending machine and a grimdark fantasy about a depressed goblin. The cover was plain black, and inside, on the first page, was a list:
But the second page made him stop. It wasn't a list. It was a story. A story about him . "Sora Tanaka, age 27. He hasn't cried since he was fifteen, when his older sister, Mika, told him his shonen jump drawings were 'a waste of tuition money.' He quit art that day. He became an editor to be close to the thing he feared most: failure." His coffee cup trembled in his hand. He read on. The notebook described his loneliness, his one-bedroom apartment with the dusty drawing tablet, his secret, three-in-the-morning habit of sketching Guts from Berserk —badly—before scrunching the paper into a ball.
Underneath were ten titles. Sora knew them all. They were the legends: Berserk , One Piece , Fullmetal Alchemist , Naruto , Attack on Titan , Monster , Vagabond , A Silent Voice , Jujutsu Kaisen , and Vinland Saga .
He’d found it wedged between a rejected isekai about a vending machine and a grimdark fantasy about a depressed goblin. The cover was plain black, and inside, on the first page, was a list: -3D-hentai-.--....-gusya-.Priestess.Princess.and.the.Fantasy
But the second page made him stop. It wasn't a list. It was a story. A story about him . "Sora Tanaka, age 27. He hasn't cried since he was fifteen, when his older sister, Mika, told him his shonen jump drawings were 'a waste of tuition money.' He quit art that day. He became an editor to be close to the thing he feared most: failure." His coffee cup trembled in his hand. He read on. The notebook described his loneliness, his one-bedroom apartment with the dusty drawing tablet, his secret, three-in-the-morning habit of sketching Guts from Berserk —badly—before scrunching the paper into a ball. Underneath were ten titles